Mainly influenced by a number of impressive videos on Matrixsynth, I invested in a Nintendo DS Lite and Korg DS-10 Plus software. It wasn't cheap - the DS cost £50and the Korg software was around £40 - which was much more than it made sense to pay for something which is little more than a toy. And it's not as if I'm going to play games on it. But still, it's good fun -
the combination of synthesis, sequencing and real-time control would be difficult to match on any other hand-held device. I suspect though that the novelty will soon wear off. You can't, after all, transpose patterns, export sequences, control external instruments etc - and of course you can do all that on a Yamaha QY instrument. Still, good fun. I also got a new design Stylophone - well, one has to, doesn't one?.
Mainly influenced by a number of impressive videos on Matrixsynth, I invested in a Nintendo DS Lite and Korg DS-10 Plus software. It wasn't cheap - the DS cost £50and the Korg software was around £40 - which was much more than it made sense to pay for something which is little more than a toy. And it's not as if I'm going to play games on it. But still, it's good fun - 
the combination of synthesis, sequencing and real-time control would be difficult to match on any other hand-held device. I suspect though that the novelty will soon wear off. You can't, after all, transpose patterns, export sequences, control external instruments etc - and of course you can do all that on a Yamaha QY instrument. Still, good fun. I also got a new design Stylophone - well, one has to, doesn't one?.
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